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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24646198, member: 26430"]Wow, so fun seeing other people's numismatic libraries! Great to see some from CT'ers who haven't posted as much lately. I actually love seeing some of the same books on everyone's shelf, as well as drooling over the ones I wish I had but don't yet. (Especially the sets: RPC, Banti, RIC, SNGs, Mitchiner, Hoover-HGCs, and so on.) I've just finished a first look through a new group of about 300 Münzen und Medaillen Fixed Price Lists (most between ~260 & 609). (I'll get a full set of 609+ someday!) [ATTACH=full]1568826[/ATTACH] The MMAG FPL's have little themes in each list (e.g., "Greek, Animals" or "Roman Middle Bronze"). One of the most popular was a personal interest of principal H.A. Cahn: Greek Fractions, which I collect. Or Kleinmünzen or Divisionnaires (depending on language of choice, another great thing about this multilingual Swiss series). High res. digital photos have made small coins more enjoyable & collectable, but there's no substitute for seeing them together, to scale, on high quality "plates." (E.g., In addition to the digital photos, see the plates in the astonishing catalog of the appropriately named "Collection Sans Pareille" of Greek AR Fractions [click "Read More" & <a href="https://nomosag.com/images/auctions/52/nomos026.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nomosag.com/images/auctions/52/nomos026.pdf" rel="nofollow">Download PDF</a> on <a href="https://nomosag.com/auction/nomos-26" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nomosag.com/auction/nomos-26" rel="nofollow">the Nomos 26 (21 May 2023) page</a>].) [ATTACH=full]1568829[/ATTACH] Only one of my Greek AR fractions is illustrated in these FPLs (494, 30, above, later <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860091" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860091" rel="nofollow">BCD Lokris-Phokis 198</a>). But I've begun taking notes on the rest, especially those I recognize from other collections and die-studies (I noted some in <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/comments.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/comments.html" rel="nofollow">Comments on ACSearch, now interspersed through the first couple pages of most recent</a>, with more to add). Of the 550 spectacular fractions in Nomos 26, 94 were from MMAG FPLs! (62 in my half.) Many others in the BCD, ADM, other notable colls. In the first post I showed my Sale Catalog shelves and a few books, but here are some more shelf photos: Oversize (incl. Dattari-Savio 2007, Kent-Hirmer ex ANS, and Imhoof-Blumer 1871 signed/inscribed to Winterthur Kunstverein) & Sear-Sayles-etc.:[ATTACH=full]1568832[/ATTACH] Mostly standard stuff that also appears in others' photos (incl. the scarce KAIROS: Contributions Demetriadi in blue slipcase; .[ATTACH=full]1568835[/ATTACH] Most of these were shown before, though a few weren't in photo or have been added -- mostly signed, inscribed, bookplates or other interesting ex-library (the inscriptions/signatures listed below). If looking closely, one might notice various duplicates across photos:[ATTACH=full]1568833[/ATTACH] I really like collecting volumes inscribed by one numismatist to another, and especially with correspondence (and especially if I have any of the coins published inside). A few have really interesting details that can't be summarized (I could go on for ages), but here's a quick list: Inscribed and/or w/ Correspondence (alphabetized by first author if multiple):<ul> <li>Erdogan Atak (to Hermann Lanz [1910-1998] & Hubert Lanz [1943-]);</li> <li>Margarete Bieber (1879-1978) (to Margaret Thompson [1911-1992]);</li> <li>Elvira Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001) (to Mrs. Mary Reichenbach [?]);</li> <li>Curtis L. Clay (to Luke Scholing of Jacques Schulman, Amsterdam);</li> <li>Edward Cohen (to Hubert Lanz);</li> <li>Charles Davis (to Ken Lowe [d. 1998]);</li> <li>Leo DeLand (to Alex G. Malloy, w/ correspondence);</li> <li>Maria Teresa Gomes Ferreira (1925-2022) (to Mark M. Salton [1914-2005], w/ correspondence);</li> <li>David Hendin (1945-) (to Jay M. Galst [1950-1920]);</li> <li>Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer (1839-1920) (to Winterthur Kunstverein [Switzerland, Museum]);</li> <li>Dennis Kroh (to C. Jackson-Jacobs [1978-]);</li> <li>Henry Clay Lindgren (1914-2005) (to Mark Millman);</li> <li>Joel Malter (1931-2006) (to Arthur John Seltman; to Stuart L Malter [1942-2021]; to Frank Mosher);</li> <li>Richard McAlee (to Jay M. Galst [1950-2020]);</li> <li>Ya'akhov Meshorer (1935-2004) (to Jay M. Galst [1950-1920]);</li> <li>Herbert Ott (1915-1987) ([?] to Endel Vingissar (1928 -);</li> <li>Rev. Edgar Rogers (1873-1961) (to Rev. James Welldon [1854-1937]);</li> <li>Jonathan P. Rosen (1944-) (to Torkhom Demirjian);</li> <li>David R. Sear (1942-) (to Jay M. Galst [1950-1920]);</li> <li>David Sellwood (1925-2012), P. Whitting, and R. Williams (to Robert Göbl [1919-1997], w/ correspondence);</li> <li>Friedrich Stefan (1886-1962) (to Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli [1914-1982]);</li> <li>W.P. Wallace (1907-1965) (to Basil Brewer [1883-1975], w correspondence);</li> <li>Richard B. Witschonke (1945-2015) & Peter van Alfen (to Jay M. Galst);</li> </ul>More Signed by Author:<ul> <li>John W. Adams (1936-);</li> <li>Burton Y. Berry (1901-1985);</li> <li>Norman Davis (1897-1991);</li> <li>David Fanning;</li> <li>George Frederick Kolbe  (1941-); </li> <li>Ya'akov Meshorer (1935-2004) & (I think) Shraga Qedar (1933-2015); </li> <li>Wayne G. Sayles (1943-);</li> <li>Hans Schulman (1913-1990);</li> <li>Fred Shore (1948? -);</li> <li>Rasiel Suarez (1969-);</li> <li>C.H.V. Sutherland (1908-1986);</li> <li>David Vagi;</li> <li>Paul Zanker (1937-);</li> </ul>[/QUOTE]

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